Campaign contributions don’t buy votes. What they buy is access. - Al Franken

I've said that net neutrality is the most important free speech issue of our time. It's true. If Republicans have their way, large corporations won't just have the loudest voices in the room. They'll be able to effectively silence everyone else. Every small business they'd prefer not to compete with. Every blogger who publishes something they don't like. We have to stop them.

I think Gore would have been a great president, may well have prevented 9/ 11, and would not have sent us to war in Iraq based on manufactured evidence. And he’d have addressed climate change, which to me is the greatest existential threat facing mankind.

No, turning the public arena into a wasteland of personal destruction takes an army of like-minded ideologues helll-bent on shredding the already tattered standards of decency that once permitted reasonable discourse on matters of import.